The Arm have sadly decided to call it a day after five years, two EPs and many ear-pounding gigs. Work on their debut album had almost completed and may yet see the light of day although you can hear unfinished mixes on their Myspace now.

LITE have added a date at Nottingham Bar None on September 19th. Tickets are available online for the Colchester and Brighton gigs. Check the schedule page for more details. Also check out the video for Contemporary Disease.

The Arm have also announced two upcoming shows in Birmingham and Leeds.

Psychedelic Irish folksters The Spook Of The Thirteenth Lock have joined the Transduction fold, watch out for more details of their forthcoming debut album soon.

Z debuted new material for the next album at a show with LITE last week in Tokyo.

Lots more press reviews added for “Filmlets” and “Mikabe”. The Z track “Mugen” is streaming at Paper Thin Walls. The band will play their first gig of 2007 after a long break in Tokyo on May 6th. Also check out a great Z article at New Noise. The Arm will play The King Edward Inn in Birmingham (formerly Chapter Eleven) on March 31st with Mills & Boon and have been added to the bill for the Wheaton Aston Music Festival on May 19th.

“…one of the most technical yet enjoyable instrumental math-rock albums in recent memory…Filmlets is a truly remarkable album”

New videos for “Human Gift” and “Gohyaku Manyen” are also now online. The Arm will be playing at British Wildlife’s Big Fat Weekend festival in Leeds next month. Other dates include shows with Trans Am and USA Is A Monster, more details on the schedule page.

The Arm will join the amazing Giveamanakick and Formation Flight for a one-off show at Birmingham’s Flapper and Firkin on November 1st. More details on schedule page. Other gigs include The Arm’s first outside the UK when they play Dublin’s legendary Ballroom of Romance on November 24th. Irish magazine Mongrel recently described The Arm’s sonic blueprint thus: “…distort the ballix out of the guitars and add loads of violent electronomological noise…”. Finally, check out The Communion’s review of “He Builds Bombs”